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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long ago the idea took root that Earth's face is squeezed and wrinkled by the contraction of cooling, but this is no longer regarded as the sole cause of unrest. A half-century ago. Dr. Watts recalled, Suess of Austria realized from geological evidence that the sea had washed back & forth on the continents in great longtime pulses, but he could not explain the underlying mechanism. After radioactivity was discovered, Joly of England and others hit on the concept of thermal pulsation: radioactivity in the solid, or nearly solid, sub-crust of Earth causes heat to be stored...
...existence. Still hell-bent on self-sacrifice, Alan arranges the furniture in the living room, hides his Braille books, awaits their call. When they arrive, he greets them soberly, pours a drink for each and, grimly pretending that he sees her perfectly, explains to Kitty that he no longer loves her. The great moment then arrives. '"Goodby," says Kitty, holding out her hand. Alan does not take it. Gerald, watching from the doorway, guesses...
...improvement. This policy promises to be epochal in racial history!" Gently chiding good folk who think of marriage as something sentimental and religious with all bodily details omitted from consideration until after the ceremony, Dr. Campbell reported: "A decided tendency is now to be observed in enlightened minds no longer to place implicit faith in rhetorical principles which have no foundation in fact, and to explore the realities of nature...
...Daughter Agnes, 12, in the car, started to hike the 40 miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing a rescue party, they sped back to their car, found only a penciled note. Mother and daughter, unable after two days and nights to endure the heat any longer, had wandered off into the trackless sands in search of water...
...Scientists Zbarsky & Vorobev were reported to be writing a book revealing how they accomplished the preservation. It was rumored that they would make the disclosure at last month's International Physiological Congress in Moscow. Last week they said they would keep the secret a dozen or so years longer. Among U. S. physiologists, medical men and embalmers, however, there was scant belief that the secret, when finally bared, would be startling, or that anything had been done with Lenin that could not be duplicated by careful, skilful employment of well-known methods...